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Sceliphron caementarium
About 25+ millimeters in body length, extremely slender, and colored black and yellow as shown.
This wasp was drinking nectar from a lone, blooming saltcedar tree (Tamarix sp.) in a vast open field of degraded shortgrass prairie with sunflower, yucca, and scattered elm trees.
Spotted on Jul 4, 2013
Submitted on Jan 11, 2014
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A real beauty!